I wish we would do away with Daylight Saving time. The holidays are often times of sadness for lots of adults, and when we change our clocks back one hour, it makes it dark at around 4:30pm in the East, so not only is the darkness, depressing, but the holiday blues dont help.
It takes about 20 days for pigeon eggs to hatch. After the eggs are hatched, the baby pigeons are known as squabs. Both the mother and father pigeons will feed the babies crop milk, a protein and fat rich substance that is created in an esophageal sac called the crop.
It breeds in trees in woods, parks and gardens, laying two white eggs in a simple stick nest which hatch after 17 to 19 days. Wood pigeons seem to have a preference for trees near roadways and rivers.he common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus) is a large species in the dove and pigeon family.